The World Water Organization

The World Water Organization (WWO) is chartered as a not-for-profit international membership association of professionals from governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), multi- and transnational corporations, and academic institutions. The organization seeks to address the world’s water challenges and to find workable and affordable solutions that benefit all nations and all peoples. To this end the WWO promotes technological advancement, facilitates public and private partnerships, provides a forum for world leaders and innovators to discuss solutions, and takes concrete steps to achieve water sustainability across the globe.
Mission
With participation of professionals form the United Nations and The World Bank to its Executive Board, the organization has the wide support of intergovernmental organizations and the governments of the Member States of the United Nations. The WWO seeks to bring together technology, projects and financing to achieve global water sustainability.
The WWO was established by the consensus of the international experts who believed that although there is an abundance of goodwill around the world, politics and bureaucracies tend to encumber the translation of ideas into the real world in which urgent action is called upon. The world’s thirsty populations continue to suffer due to the lack of safe drinking water. The need is most palpable in the developing and underdeveloped countries where the situation is exacerbated by the burgeoning population growth.
History of the World Water Organization
The WWO was created following the establishment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the specific aim of meeting goal number seven target three: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The MDGs were announced at the Millennium Summit in September of 2000 and world leaders committed to eight specific goals to be reached at a target date of 2015. The eight goals are as follows:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce childhood mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development
In July 2008, the WWO worked with and sponsored the New York Institute of Technology's International Water Conference at the United Nations.
In February 2009, the WWO ran its own first international conference, the High-Level Symposium on Water Security at the United Nations, gathering leaders, specialists and other pre-eminent representatives from private sector businesses, international organizations, non-government and non-profit organizations and academic institutions. The Symposium was run in cooperation with The International Water Association and W-SMART, The New York Institute of Technology Center for Security and Disaster Response, and the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations. It was sponsored by The Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations and had financial sponsorship from Hope Finance S.A..
Annual Conferences
The World Water Organization hosts a series of annual conferences around the world to bring together experts in the field, governments, and private citizens in creating solutions to the world’s water problems. Each of the yearly gatherings focuses on a specific goal of the organization.
The High Level Symposium on Water Security and Emergency Relief
Held: February 2009 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA
The International Water Conference on Global Water and Health: The Challenge of the 21st Century
To be held: January 2010
The International Water Summit
To be held: March 2010
Projects
The WWO is currently planning and developing a number of project proposals to deliver water solutions to developing countries and countries where water challenges present immediate problems around the world. The WWO works with host governments to deliver water solutions and seeks to build partnerships with other internationally minded organizations and institutions to address water issues globally. Donations from international businesses and individuals play a critical role in delivering these projects and securing water resources for communities in need.
The World Water Organization welcomes project proposals and suggestions for where it can increase its focus to address the water needs of people globally, regionally and locally - regardless of the size or complexity.
The World According to Water
The WWO will launch its new website during September. The Website will feature an encyclopedic resource detailing water challenges in each of the world's countries. This resource will continually be updated to represent the most current statistics as well as accurately portray activities being undertaken by host governments and non-government organizations/institutions to address these water challenges.
Executive Board of Directors
Chairman - Dr. Harold HyunSuk Oh
Deputy Chairman - H.E. Waheed Waheedullah
Board of Directors
Dr. Sediq Afghan
Dr. Mourad Belguedj
Dr. Noel J. Brown
Dr. Rexhep Meidani
Behgjet Pacolli
Dr. Andrew J. Yager
The International Advisory Council
H.E. Anwarul K. Chowdhury
Ty Fairman
H.E. Ahmad Kamal
Dr. Brian O’Leary
Hector Sectzer
Kaan Soyak
Robert Wagner
Secretariat
Executive Director - Dr. Elaine Valdov

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